Donna Otten

✨ February Breathwork Offerings ✨

This month, I’m holding space for you to pause, breathe, and come home to yourself, wherever you are.

🌬 Tuesdays on Zoom
Breathe with me from the comfort of your own space.
A powerful, grounding practice to release stress, move emotion, and reset your nervous system.
🔗 Link in bio to sign up

🌿 Thursdays in person
Join us at BASI Pilates Marina del Rey for an intentional, supportive breathwork experience.
🔗 Link in bio to reserve your spot

What you’ll receive:
✨ Nervous system regulation
✨ Emotional release & clarity
✨ Deeper connection to your body
✨ A sense of grounding, peace, and presence
✨ Community, support, love, and acceptance

This is a space where you don’t have to fix yourself.
You don’t have to show up any certain way.
You are welcome exactly as you are.

Are you craving more calm in your body?
More connection in your life?
A place to breathe, feel, and be held in community?

✨ Join us. Breathe with us. You don’t have to do this alone. ✨

Begin From the Heart
A Playful New Year Reset with Breath & Creative Expression

Date: Sunday, January 18
Time: 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Doors Open: 10:15 AM (to allow time to settle in)
Location: Thrive Collective — Outdoor Patio
Address:
2905 Stanford Ave
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 (upstairs)

Please plan to arrive between 10:15–10:25 AM so we can begin promptly at 10:30.

What to Expect


Begin From the Heart is a 2-hour, in-person experience blending breathwork and creative expression — designed to help you reconnect with your inner voice and begin the year from a place of authenticity and ease.

Our time together will include:

A grounding arrival and welcome
A guided breathwork practice (approximately 45 minutes, lying down)
An integration visualization to connect with an image, color, or intention
Creative expression through drawing, writing, or mandala creation
A closing sharing circle to integrate and connect


This is not about performance or artistic skill.
It’s about listening inward and allowing what’s present to be expressed — gently and honestly.

About Your Guides


Donna Otten
Donna is a breathwork facilitator, meditation teacher, and Pilates instructor with over a decade of experience guiding people back into connection with their bodies and inner wisdom. Her work is rooted in nervous system regulation, compassion, and creating spaces where people feel safe to slow down, soften, and come home to themselves.

Bryana Nugent
Bryana is a self-taught artist, author, and owner of Lightly Studios based in Manhattan Beach, California. Rooted in yoga and meditation, her work centers on creativity as a grounding, contemplative practice. Through her art and workshops, Bryana invites creativity as a pathway to presence, play, and self-trust.

I imagine you’ve been hearing a lot about breathwork lately.
And if you’re still thinking about trying it… I’d say, just go for it.
Breathwork has been my anchor.
It’s the practice that has supported me the most, the one that I genuinely enjoy, have fun with, and return to again and again. I don’t have to overthink it or explain it. I get to move energy, soften my nervous system, and come back to myself.
When I practice regularly, I feel like I can show up for my life from my best place possible.
What happens in breathwork is that our energy gently moves away from logic, pressure, and all the things we think we should be doing, the ego, and begins to move what’s been stuck in the body. We return to a place of emptiness. And when I say emptiness, I mean a fresh start. A rebirth. A creative, fresh beginning.
That’s why I believe this practice is so powerful and why I love offering it weekly.

✨ Weekly Breathwork — January
Wednesdays | 7:00–8:00 PM
January 7, 14, 21 & 28
Thrive Health & Wellness Collective

If you’re looking for a weekly or monthly practice to support your nervous system, creativity, and overall sense of wellbeing I highly recommend breathwork. Sign up now!
Link in bio

✨ Special January Event ✨
Begin From the Heart
A Playful New Year Reset with Breath & Creative Flow
Saturday, January 18 | 10:30 AM–12:30 PM

This is a very special, heart-led workshop I’m co-leading with Bryana. We’ll begin with grounding and breathwork, followed by a guided visualization and creative expression — drawing, writing, or mandala creation — to help you set intentions for the new year not from pressure or goals, but from presence, play, and inner guidance.

A little about Bryana,

Bryana is a self-taught artist, author, and owner of Lightly Studios. Rooted in yoga and meditation, her work centers on creativity as a grounding, contemplative practice inviting presence, play, and self-trust through art.

Both offerings are invitations to begin again ~ gently, honestly, and from the heart.

✨ Link in bio for details & registration ✨

Hi loves, wishing you all a beautiful and peaceful holiday season. Here are my holiday hours and class updates so you can plan ahead ⬇️

Pilates Holiday Hours

I’ll be taking these days off:
🦃 11/27–11/28 (Thanksgiving Day & Friday)
🎄 12/24 & 12/25
✨ 1/1 (New Year’s Day)
✈️ Traveling to Guatemala: 12/5–12/13

If I normally see you Thursdays or Fridays, please reach out if you’d like to reschedule.

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Breathwork Schedule (Wednesdays 7PM)

🌀 11/26 – Regular class
🌀 12/3 – Regular class
🌬️ 12/10 – Special guest guide: Monika
✨ 12/17 – I’ll be back to lead
❌ No class 12/24 or 12/31
🐎 We return 1/7/26 to welcome the Year of the Horse

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This Week -
I still have two spots left for Wednesday’s breathwork.
Sign up online or message me directly if you want to join. 💛

Wishing you a soft, grounded, heart-full holiday season.
— Donna

✨ 11:11 Portal + Throat Chakra Activation ✨

The 11/11 Portal is a divine gateway a moment of alignment, awakening, and manifestation.
Your thoughts and words are especially powerful right now. Speak them with love, clarity, and faith. 💫

This week’s Breathwork Class (Wed 7–8 PM) is devoted to the Throat Chakra your center of truth and authentic expression.
We’ll breathe into the spaces where we’ve held back, edited, or silenced ourselves to be accepted or keep the peace and open the voice of the heart.

💭 Ask yourself:
• What feelings am I holding back?
• What truth wants to be spoken?
• Where am I editing myself instead of being honest?

Come breathe, release, and reconnect to your truth.
Class starts promptly at 7 PM — arrive 5–10 min early to settle in and bring presence into your practice.

📍 Thrive Collective, Marina del Rey
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🕯 Two-hour Release & Renew Ceremony coming 11/19 (Breathwork + Yoga Nidra + Palo Santo ritual) — $45

This Wednesday’s Breathwork + Sound class , 7pm will be a donation-based session, and all proceeds will go directly to the Los Angeles County Food Bank 💛

As of November 1st, SNAP (food assistance) benefits are being cut, leaving thousands of families, children, and elderly neighbors without access to food. Every dollar makes a difference:
$1 = 8–10 meals.

There’s one spot left in class if you’d like to join in person, or you can still support this cause or by donating through the link below. Let’s use our breath, presence, and collective power to help feed LA. 🕊️

https://give.lafoodbank.org/fundraiser/6803019
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“People have the power.” – Patti Smith